Ritual Movies

Three Greek intellectuals gather for the Great Summoning, a mysterious phenomenon that may take days to manifest. While they wait, they attempt to...

Egglantine loves salt on her eggs. Eggbert prefers pepper. Who blinks first in this playful Easter ritual?

Two teachers. An obscure pair of parents. A boy they want to save at all costs. Germany, 1983: Unable to find an explanation for a pupil's strange...

A group of students form a ritual around a woman who undergoes numerous spirtual sexual experiences until encountering the Devine Messenger.

Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and...

Thirteen years after her seemingly normal father goes on a killing spree, a college senior and friends return to her hometown to uncover the secret...

A teenage girl is prepared for a mysterious ritual.

At the beginning of the story, Alp and Furkan go for a walk. Alp hears a sound through the forest as he walks along the path. This sound is the first...

Expelled from paradise, Lilith chooses the human race as the target of her fury. Imprisoned by a group of witches for centuries, she ends up being...

The Pharmacratic Inquisition is a provocative film from Gnostic Media that makes the argument that virtually all of the mythology, symbolism, and...

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the...

Josh’s beloved Grandpa Joe has passed on... and they never even got to say goodbye. So, Josh’s wife, Lori plans to do a séance as...

A young woman's story of possession and healing in rural Rajasthan

A coven of witches gather in Vermont in a feminist collective’s transporting short that shakes off patriarchal scrutiny during the...

Mia has locked herself inside her recently deceased mother's rundown, crumbling house. Armed with a litany of books detailing ancient cultures and...

Sacred explores cultural and religious ritual as it relates to life’s cycles: birth, adolescence, marriage, aging and other key passages of...

A young woman guides a man through a mysterious forest. In his eyes, everything seems normal, until he comes across two women waiting for him in a...

A naive teenager is out of his element at a drug-fuelled get-together. To break out of his shell, he’ll have to smoke and drink his way through...